Blacker - EN
Source: Bakersfield Californian Tue Oct 11, 1960
Services are scheduled Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Payne and Son Funeral Home for EN Blacker, 92, 2303 Eve St, a Kern County resident for 68 years and long-time member of the real estate profession. He died Friday in a Bakersfield rest home. Rev. J Wesley Farr of the First Methodist Church will officiate. Born in Indiana, Mr. Blacker crossed the continent in 1892 and settled in Kern County. He was affiliated with the Woodmen of the World. Survivors include a son, Carroll Lynn, Redwood City; five grandchildren and other relatives. (from FindAGrave – obit added by Arthur Allen Moore III) – Note; he also had a son James Haven Blacker (1894-1925) –who was a musician in an orchestra – plus served in the 54th Balloon Company Air Service.
Carroll Lynne 1901-1962 – supt of Buildings & Grounds at Stanford University where he collapsed and died when rushed to the hospital 2 April 1962, not yet 61 years old. – grad (engineer) of Stanford in 1925 – served 18 years as deputy building inspector at Palo Alto and during WWII he supervised the construction of a naval hospital in Santa Barbara (he was Capt. in the Naval Reserve)- in Union Cem Bakersfield Kern Co Calif with his brother
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 2 March 1894 p5
A dispatch from Bakersfield, Cal says: “A tramp went to the house of Newton Blacker near Poso Creek today and asked for food. While Mrs. Blacker was preparing something for him to eat the tramp entered the house and assaulted her. Mrs. Blacker struggled and finally made her escape. The neighborhood was roused and started in pursuit of the man. He was overtaken at Kimberlena and the crowd prepared to lynch him but officers prevented it. Later, however, the people took him from the officers took off his clothing and administered a severe horse whipping. Then the infuriated crowd mutilated the man and let him go.” Mrs. Blacker is a daughter of James E. Cave of Darlington. Mr. Blacker married Miss Cave in Sugar Creek township three of four years ago moving then with his wife and brother-in-law AJ Bone to Bakersfield, Cal.